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Torrents.ru taken down by authorities

Torrent.ru, the Russian-based torrent indexing site that serves 4 million users, has had its domain name suspended today, effectively taking down the site at its current location.

The large indexer, which has over 1 million active torrents, had the domain name suspended by RU-Center, the nation's largest registrar and web-host.



According to Andrey Vorobiev, Director of Public Relations (via TorrentFreak), "the domain was blocked on the orders of the Investigative Division of the regional prosecutor’s office in Chertanovskaya, Moscow, but could not disclose the reasons."

For now, the site is back up at Rutracker.org, but it remains unseen whether that new domain will be taken down by the authorities as well.

Written by: Andre Yoskowitz @ 20 Feb 2010 2:00

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• 7 comments

• windsong

  In Soviet Russia, the party finds YOU!

  20.2.2010 03:13 #1

• domie

  Don't quite understand your comment - makes no sense , if this was "Soviet" Russia with "The Party" , they would never have been able to open the site in the first place , would they ? I think you're stuck in the 1970s for some reason :)

  21.2.2010 04:15 #2

• scum101

  give em 48 hours to spread the word.. they could even use a .tk freebie for a stopgap. (waits for a chechyn based setup coming)
  

  "Ubuntu" - an African word meaning "Slackware is too hard for me"

  21.2.2010 09:52 #3

• townliar

  Move to Canada, land of the MPAA free ;)

  25.2.2010 09:55 #4

• eb72826

  you mean the land of the free-loaders....

  25.2.2010 12:05 #5

• Mihail Gorbachev (unverified)

  No worries guys!
  All staff and users moved to another site!
  That's why it is a right time for you to party.
  
  The athorities arrested an unexisting person.
  It was the reason to close the site.

  22.3.2010 01:05 #6

• benskis (unverified)

  Originally posted by windsong: In Soviet Russia, the party finds YOU! ruskie filmy

  4.6.2010 03:03 #7